The Cost of the War Machine

I have posted this diary a few times. I have taken it down myself and at another time, it just disappeared. The last time the Images of the Id was removed this single image remained in the ether.... for some reason... Maybe, the idea is too strong?

The cost of the War Machine today is more then our children's children can absorb. You and I will never see its end. The people who run this country are the people who love to kill for a living. They must. They invest most of our GNP in the Killing Machine. When they no longer create killing machines, for some reason, they turn to doing the paper work for the military and for cities like Los Angeles (1990 LA Times articles one, two). ...hmmmm... IS there a  connection....?

Why this image? The Pentagon was caught saying very terrible things toward President Obama at the beginning of his term in office. It's not so obvious if you try Google for examples, now, but I remember. This article from NYT implies issues. There was a decision by the President to change our killing ways but the Military stood their ground (they own bloody lot, I guess). Then the President leaned their way. That is when I made this image.

I often wonder what we REALLY get for all this killing. Not everything we pay for works, either. Now, we have drones that kill women and children which are either called "collateral" or "combatants".   Also, I was horrified watching our President intently watching the raid and massacre in the Osama bin Laden camp.... this wasn't what I would have voted for. What have we become?

The Military does not add positive things to our nation. It doesn't add food, water, health. Only returns broken, sick, and permanently disabled people.... not to mention, the wink for all the misogyny for those women who join or marry or work for the military.

I created this image a long time ago. When this site was undone, it seemed to live on in the "internets" for some reason.... even when I tossed the original image.. but there it drifted.... so, I caught it and put it up. Truth lives on..?